In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWeakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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